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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2020
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Yuki Ito, Iwakura, JP;
Tsukasa Nakanishi, Nagoya, JP;
Yuta Morikawa, Miyoshi, JP;
Naoki Yamamuro, Nagoya, JP;
Yuki Tatsumoto, Nagoya, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle control system that sets a preliminary destination or a preliminary destination area toward which a vehicle heads in an autonomously driven state; that causes the vehicle to travel in the autonomously driven state to the preliminary destination or the preliminary destination area set by the preliminary destination/area setting section; that acquires position information for the vehicle; and that switches a driving state of the vehicle from the autonomously driven state to a manually driven state or a remotely operated driven state when the vehicle has been detected to have arrived at the preliminary destination or in the preliminary destination area based on the position information.